Description

The Banshees of Inisherin on Achill Island is a limited-edition publication produced by Red Fox Press, a well-known Irish art publishing house based on Achill Island. The work focuses on the real-world locations used in the filming of Martin McDonagh’s 2022 film The Banshees of Inisherin, which was largely shot across Achill Island (County Mayo) and Inis Mór (Aran Islands).

The publication documents how Achill’s dramatic Atlantic coastline, including locations such as Keem Bay, Cloughmore, Purteen Harbour, and Lough Acorrymore, was transformed into the fictional island of Inisherin. These landscapes played a central role in shaping the film’s atmosphere of isolation, emotional tension, and dark humour.

Red Fox Press approaches the subject not as a standard film book, but as an artistic exploration of place and cinema, blending photography, editorial design, and cultural commentary. The publication highlights how Achill Island itself becomes a character in the film—its cliffs, roads, and coastal light reflecting themes of separation and human conflict.

Key themes include:

• Film production on Achill Island
• Cinematic use of Irish Atlantic landscapes
• Behind-the-scenes documentation of The Banshees of Inisherin
• Relationship between place, identity, and storytelling
• Rural Irish visual culture and heritage
• Intersection of art publishing and film studies
• Transformation of real locations into fictional worlds

The book also reflects Red Fox Press’s wider artistic mission of capturing Achill Island’s cultural and environmental identity through experimental publishing, photography, and print design. It appeals to readers interested in film studies, Irish landscape photography, contemporary art publishing, and cultural geography.